Posted on 10/17/2014 8:11:26 PM PDT by Impala64ssa
Pray to God to preserve the First Amendment. Hundreds of residents took to a high school football field Friday night to collectively bow down and pray — a massive response to atheist activists’ recent accusations that a local school district is guilty of at least two violations of the separation of church and state. But the prayer event wasn’t the only noteworthy response to secularists’ complaints, as local resident David Hoover placed three large Christian crosses on land he owns across the street from Licking Valley High School in Newark, Ohio — 10 to 13-foot symbols intended to send a message.
As TheBlaze previously reported, a free speech debate touched off in the city after the Freedom From Religion Foundation, a secular activist group, accused the Licking Valley High School District of violating the First Amendment by allowing high school marching band members to wear T-shirts with the word “salvation” on them during a recent performance.
And in a separate complaint just days later, the Freedom From Religion Foundation cited a 2013 Facebook photo showing a member of the school’s football team leading his fellow players in prayer as evidence of yet another purported violation.
While players are permitted to lead team prayer, it was the presence of three coaches participating in the invocation that drew atheist ire, according to the Columbus Dispatch. After Licking Valley Superintendent David Hile recently dismissed the band grievance, but said that the prayer concern was potentially legitimate, residents decided to take action.
So locals took to the field at Randy Baughman Stadium Friday night, where they kneeled down, recited the Lord’s Prayer and cheered — all acts taken in response to the Freedom From Religion Foundation’s complaint letters, according to the Newark Advocate.
One resident apparently made shirts that read “Stand up, stand strong, Amen!” and passed them out during the mass invocation.
No matter what your personal belief may be, ALWAYS support freedom of speech because you never know when you’ll be on the other side fighting for your civil right to speak freely.
The ONLY way Americans can take their country back is by MASSIVE acts of civil disobedience.
Amen, Amen and again I say, Amen!!!
Good for those folks! I have yet to find “separation of church and state” in any copy of the Constitution that I have examined.
Annie Laurie Gaylor is worse that her idiot mother.
We better puh back and crush them.
Good for the people in this town. It's time folks showed some gumption when dealing with the militants.
Publius, I’m a Christian and have had many athiest friends through the years.....even family members. I have NEVER seen them act in a militant manner. It’s always been ‘whatever’ with them as them with I. This is political with the attacks. Much more to this.
Well, I can think of a couple others, but that'd do for starters.
+1
And a big BRAVO from this Deist to those 'locals' !
You’re not an atheist—just a believer in waiting. (’ We want you in heaven bro with buckets of other FReeps when we get there.
It's right after that clause that says it's alright to kill babies.
> The ONLY way Americans can take their country back is by MASSIVE acts of civil disobedience.
Been saying this for some time. The government has tightened the noose so much they’ve made it almost impossible not to be a criminal at some point
I am glad you are on our side. That said, I will pray that you find your way to God.
/an engineer, physicist, mathematician, and other things, but also a former deist, atheist, Hermeticist (not a hermit, it’s a very obscure term), and other things...
IIRC, it was in some of the 'papers' authored by one of the founding fathers.
More important than that is that it doesn't say separation of church and state, It speaks of the "Separation of the POWERS of CHURCH, and the POWERS of STATE".
Many if not most self-described atheists will, when pressed, admit that they are only uncertain as to the existence of a supreme Deity, and just require more proof.
Really angry foaming teeth snapping atheists like Richard Dawkins, who hate what they claim doesn’t even exist, are relatively rare.
Bravo to the believers on that football field! Let the FFRF fascists send in their goon squads!
Hey, I studied astrology 40 years ago with the youngest 32nd degree Mason in America. I still find it useful. I was also a subscriber to “Gnosis” until it went under. Great magazine.
i’m not religious either though i follow a Judeo-Christian ethos. i do get a feeling of serenity when i see a creche or menorah. it seems these in your face atheists do not have a lot of faith in their “lack of faith” if they are afraid of any symbol of religion.
I believe it was in one of Jefferson's letters.
I was not criticizing. Just saying I hope you find your way. And also appreciate you being on our side. (I recognize your nic, your posts and comments are invariably cogent.)
Liberals have decided that “separation of church and state” is in the constitution.
Along with rights to abortion and homosexual marriage, and other penumbras from which we can find a constitutional right to anything liberals desire.
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